Project Description Massachusetts legislators recently passed a new law that requires school districts to provide means to screen students for a potential language based learning disability, such as dyslexia. The […]
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Wampanoag and Pilgrim Life
Project Description Third graders will participate in a comprehensive and engaging social studies exploration of Native American and Pilgrim ways of life in the 1620s. Students will individually research a […]
Read moreVoting Rights in America: A Traveling Exhibition
Project Description Cobblestone magazine is an exceptional history magazine for kids, used by teachers like myself, for decades. Their issue on voting rights in America traces voting rights back to colonial […]
Read moreHands on Literacy Centers
Project Description As first grade teachers, we do a lot of reading instruction! We have found that a major piece of learning to read is developing phonics skills. Through phonics […]
Read moreLord of the Flies Unit/ Mock Trial
Project Description In 1995 the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School was founded, and one of the early traditions was reading the book The Lord of the Flies in 8th grade. […]
Read moreSocial Emotional Learning Through Community Service
Project Description As a classroom teacher I find that a large part of my teaching of all subjects is infused with social emotional learning. Students are expected to work with […]
Read moreLiterary Magazine Club
Project Description Literary Magazine Club is a student-run club that meets every Friday during school and once a month after school and is aimed at bringing students of all grades […]
Read moreGIVE IT OWL YOU GOT, BCIS!!!
Project Description This year, we have transitioned from a Horace Mann Charter School to an Innovation School and our new mascot is the owl. The culminating project will be a […]
Read moreImage-Making Integrated Curriculum – Author & Illustrator Opportunity for All Students
Project Description This project is designed to go with the “Image-Making Within the Writing Process,” which is a dynamic art-and literature based approach to writing. It is designed to support […]
Read moreFamily Art Kits
Project Description Families will be invited to check out a themed Art Kit for a week. Inside each kit will be books (bilingual or multilingual, wordless and those featuring illustrations […]
Read moreBHS Poetry
Project Description BHS Poetry was established in 2008 to provide a creative venue for Barnstable High School’s community of writers. We are currently unfunded, except through grants. In the 2008-2009 […]
Read moreStudent Book Writing / Publishing
Project Description Class books teach students all aspects of the writing process, publishing and reading. Students share every book written with families. All Massachusetts standards in English Language Arts are […]
Read moreLiteracy for All
Project Description This literacy project, which specifically helps students develop phonemic awareness, will be utilized year upon year. Each phoneme is taught individually as part of a multi-sensory approach to […]
Read moreGrowth Mindset Social Emotional Classroom Library
Project Description I would like to create a Growth Mindset Read Aloud & Audio Library in my fifth grade classroom this year. Our fifth grade thoughtful thinkers will be able […]
Read moreRe-usable Bags for Book Fair
Project Description The funding from this grant would pay for the purchase of 350 re-usable, non-plastic bags for our annual Book Fair. These would be given to students and parents […]
Read moreInteractive Family Literacy Reading Bags
Project Description The goal of this proposed project is to have families come together around notable fiction and informational texts by engaging in shared reading and the completion of included […]
Read moreFine Motor Tools for Kindergarten Students
Project Description The goal of this project is to purchase fine motor materials and tools for kindergarten classrooms at Station Avenue Elementary school in order to give students opportunities to […]
Read moreFifth Grade Book Clubs
Project Description Reading instruction at the 5th grade level is delivered in a reading workshop format. In this format, the students receive whole group instruction in a particular skill and […]
Read moreMagnetic Poetry for Magnificent Poems
Project Description The main goal of this unit is making the art of writing poetry accessible for all students. By having magnetic poetry tiles and magnetic easels available, poetry writing […]
Read morePhonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary
Project Description The goal of this project is to support phonics instruction, spelling, and vocabulary in third grade at Oak Bluffs School. We recently adopted a Vision Statement for our […]
Read moreMA Seal of Bi-Literacy Pilot at NRMS
Project Description The Seal of Bi-Literacy is a national movement to recognize K-12 students who perform with proficiency in two languages. Governor Baker signed this legislation in November, 2017 as […]
Read moreWitness to War: Serving a Nation Oral History Project
Project Description The goal of this grant is to help continue the Witness to War: Serving a Nation oral history project at Nauset Regional High School. This project, now in […]
Read morePrimitive Reflexes and Literacy
Project Description The goal in requesting this grant is to obtain 14 yoga mats for use during the third and fourth grade literacy blocks. During these blocks, small groups of […]
Read moreWriting Readiness
Project Description The purpose of the ‘Writing Readiness’ initiative will be to support all PK/K students and their classroom teachers by enhancing their access to tools and learning items that […]
Read moreMulticultural Cinderella Stories
Project Description The funds from this grant will be used to create a new multicultural library of Cinderella stories for the 3rd grade students at the West Tisbury School. Students […]
Read moreThe Viking Times Newspaper Project
Project Description To continue the school newspaper, The Viking Times. Students will create and produce at least four editions of a student-run newspaper that is at least four pages long […]
Read moreConnected by Clay
Project Description The goal of this project is to allow for Ceramics 2 students at the high school level to apply the techniques and skills that they have learned to […]
Read moreThe Read-Write Project
Project Description In order to foster literacy independence while using the research-based instructional routines from “The Daily 5” by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, we will require a variety of […]
Read moreBuilding a Bilingual Library
Project Description Orleans Elementary School is becoming more diverse each year. In the past two years we have been lucky to welcome students from Vietnam, Brazil, Slovakia, Colombia, and other […]
Read moreRead. Think. Write
Project Description Goals- The goal of this incentive is to improve the reading and writing level of all 2nd graders at our school. This program could be shared at our […]
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